It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I didn't want to do something typical.